DICE News 2002-04 #2

General: 1) University-wide Unique User Names (staff only)
General: 2) Mail and web identity (everyone)

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Jeremy Olsen
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General
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1) University-wide Unique User Names (applies to staff only)

   All users within the University have been allocated a
   university-wide unique user name and we will be using these under
   the new Informatics domain.  All existing usernames were checked
   for clashes in Spring 2000 and you should already have been told if
   your existing username did clash with any others.  If it did you
   will have been assigned an alternative and should have been
   informed what it is.  If you haven't then you will be getting your
   existing username under DICE.

   If you have joined the University in the last year you should
   already have the correct username and shouldn't need to change.
   However, there are some exceptions beeing uncovered and thse users
   will be notified in due course.

   If you are one of the few who have been assigned a new unique user
   name you may opt to convert to using it now.  The choice is
   entirely up to you.  This will mean that your email and web
   identity will change although the old ones will continue to work.
   If you wish to do this please contact your local support team.

   In future if you wish to make use of a centralised service (through
   EUCS, MIS, etc), you will get the same username as you have for
   Informatics.  If you need an account in a different department in
   the University, you should in theory get the same username but it
   will ultimately depend on whether that department is observing the
   scheme.

2) Mail and web identity (everyone)

   There will be an Informatics mail server and incoming mail will be
   accepted to 'user@inf' as well as 'user@informatics' (where user is
   your unique user name).  Outgoing mail will be stamped 'user@inf'
   although users can of course tailor their outgoing identity.

   There will be separate web servers for official and personal
   information, for reasons of security and system load.

   Official web space will continue to be located under
   'www.informatics.ed.ac.uk' (also accessible as 'www.inf.ed.ac.uk').
   Institute pages will remain the same as well.

   Personal pages will be located under 'homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk', in
   line with the approach that EUCS are adopting.

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